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We close our season with Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor, a work intended to summarize and showcase all the compositional technique and expressivity that this great composer had amassed during his life. Each movement has its own style and stamp of creative ingenuity. Performing it is often described as a lifetime experience, and hearing it […]
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Composers dating from Vivaldi to Barry Manilow have drawn inspiration from nature and, in particular, the change of seasons. Music Director Al Sturgis has assembled a wonderfully eclectic program of season-themed choral gems from old composers of note such as Haydn, Grieg, Elgar, and Debussy to some of the most notable composers of today like
The North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble is proud to present: With Flying Colors! This exhilarating show features tap dancers, ages 8-18, from all over North Carolina. Founded in 1982 by Gene Medler, NCYTE is now under the artistic direction of Nicholas Van Young. Over the past 40 years, the ensemble has traveled throughout the country,
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J.S. Bach’s church cantatas are often considered the pinnacle of German sacred music, works whose theological depth and emotional resonance touch deep places in the human soul. The Chapel’s Bach Cantata Series presents these musical masterpieces accompanied by other notable choral and instrumental works of the Baroque era. For this final concert in the series,
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Duke Chapel’s choirs join forces with the Mallarmé Music to present a program of choral music for anxious times. The program will include Felix Mendelssohn’s cantata “Hear My Prayer” and the Missa in Angustiis (“Lord Nelson” Mass) by Franz Joseph Haydn, considered one of the most evocative mass settings of the Classical era. Click here to purchase
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